Modern English and French drama.--Some French and English plays.--The modernity of the poetics.--Processes of thought in playmaking.--Laws of change.--The art of acting.--The dynasts and the puppets.--Curiosity and horror in the theatre.--Euripides: Hippolytus, Electra.--Shakespeare: The two gentlemen of Verona, Much ado about nothing, Hamlet, Professor Bradley's Hamlet, Measure for measure.--Henry Irving: Dante, Westminster abbey.--A. W. Pinero: Iris, Letty, His house in order.--J. M. Barrie: Quality street, The admirable Crichton, Peter Pan.--Bernard Shaw: Candida, John Bull's other island, Man and superman, Major Barbara, The doctor's dilemma, The philanderer.--Eleonora Duse: La gioconda, Francesca da Rimini, La seconda moglie, La locandiera.--Sarah Bernhardt: As moralist, Andromaque, Adrienne Lecouvreur.--Réjane: La Parisienne, Zaza, La robe rouge.--The Voysey inheritance.--The way of the world.--The Irish national theatre.--Warp and woof.--A Cinderella ballet.--The débutante